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Lot 6255
Varley, Frederick John - 'Cambridge during the Civil War' 1st edition, author's copy in full calf with coat of arms, Duckworth, Francis - 'Chester' 1st edition 1910 illustrated by E H Compton, Trevelyan G M 'History of England' 1926, prize binding, Tomlinson, John - 'Doncaster' limited facsimile edition 136/200 large folio and four other books (8)
Lot 208
World.- Blackie (W.G.) The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, 100 maps over 75 double-pages, mounted on stubs, including the Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent, America, Asia, China, engravings with outline hand-colouring, each double-page approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), scattered spotting, browning and minor surface dirt, contemporary half morocco, spine split and very worn, gilt upper cover, rubbed and scuffed, g.e., worn, folio, 1860; together with two further folding maps, a Stucchi postal map of Italy, and Welland's New Map of the vast iron Network of Railways with their Stations in Great Britain, 8vo (3)
Lot 195
Sweden.- Thersner (Ulrick & Thora) Fordna och Närvarande Sverige; La Suede Ancienne et Moderne, 3 vol., text in Swedish and French, half-title, aquatint vignette title, 6 vignette part titles (2 aquatint & 4 lithographed) and 372 plates on 366 sheets, 130 aquatint and 236 lithographed, some tinted, list of subscribers tipped into vol.1 (foxed), plates with occasional light spotting and a couple of small stains, mostly marginal, 'Julita' in vol.2 with slight abrasions, a few marginal tears and repairs, some lithographed plates browned, contemporary half roan, spines gilt, lilac endpapers with clover leaves printed in green and gold, rubbed, some wear to spine ends and splits to joints, oblong folio, Stockholm, [1817-67]. *** Monumental work with magnificent plates featuring the castles and mansions of Sweden, completed by Thersner's daughter Thora. Rare to find complete with all the plates.
Lot 131
Middle East.- Palestine, c.185 vintage photographs taken in and around Palestine, v.s., each mounted on thick black card and captioned by hand in white ink, one or two detached and loosely inserted, tissue-guards, contemporary cloth album, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, oblong folio, 1932. *** Including images of: the Lake of Galilee; Samaria; Mount Tabor; Tabgha; River Jordan; Syria; Belfort; the Dead Sea; Massada; Dar-es-Salam; Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. This also includes images of the teaching staff and pupils of the Bishop Gobat School, now home to Jerusalem University College.
Lot 171
Russia.- Simpson (William) The Seat of War in the East, 2 vol., first edition, comprising first- and second-series, tinted lithograph titles, 79 tinted lithographs, tissue-guards (some captioned), occasional marginal spotting and water-staining, not affecting images, chipping to edges of some text ff., previous owner's ink signature and bookseller's label to front pastedown, gutta percha perished with plates and text ff. loose or becoming so, contemporary morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey, Travel 237], folio, Paul & Dominic Colnaghi, 1855-56. *** Provenance: Inscribed to Lady Buchan, and dated ?Jan [18]57. Label of Messrs Fores Repository of Works of Art.
Lot 185
Spain.- Berni (Joseph) Creacion Antiguedad, y Privilegios de los Titulos de Castilla, first edition, additional engraved title, engraved portrait and plate, engraved illustrations, scattered spotting, occasional faint marginal water-staining, T1-V4 with worming to bottom margin, 4C2 (final text ff.) with worming affecting odd word, worming to final endpapers, contemporary vellum, soiled, rubbed and worn, lacking ties, folio, Valencia, 1769.
Lot 67
France.- Brandling (Henry Charles) Views in the North of France, 12 hand-coloured tinted lithographs mounted on card, light foxing or soiling to some mounts, one or two creased at corners, loose as issued with text booklet in facsimile in original pictorial board portfolio, lacking ties, rubbed and marked, edges a little worn, rebacked in morocco, flaps renewed, [Abbey, Travel 98], by the Author, 1848 § Clutton (Henry) Illustrations of Mediaeval Architecture in France, 16 tinted lithographed plates, illustrations, occasional marginal spotting to plates, some becoming loose, ex-library copy with unobtrusive embossed stamp to lower outer corner of frontispiece and title, original cloth, rubbed, rebacked, 1856, folio (2)*** The first contains attractive views of Northern French cathedrals and street scenes, and is rarely found with the descriptive text.
Lot 218
World.- Smith (Charles) Smith's New General Atlas..., title and 46 maps, including 2 double-page maps, hence numbered to 48, engraved maps with original hand-colouring, light surface dirt and occasional marginal finger-soiling, title with owner's signature dated 1820, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, upper cover detached, spine completely split, crudely taped back together, very worn, folio, 1816.
Lot 68
France.- Graphic Illustrations of the Most Prominent Features of the French Capital... From Accurate Designs Taken in Paris During the Imperial Reign of Buonaparte, 12 engraved plates, scattered spotting and marginal browning throughout, damp stain to lower margin of one plate, one leaf loose, repaired tear to final leaf, original printed cloth-backed boards, upper board working loose, spine cloth torn and frayed, rubbed and soiled, oblong folio, 1816.
Lot 41
Britain.- Camden (William) Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English...by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece (marginal repairs), 8 engraved plates of coins, 50 maps by Robert Morden, 2 folding (Kent & Norfolk) and the rest double-page mounted on stubs, engraved and woodcut illustrations, lacking 2U1-2 but with *2U1-2 in duplicate, title with ink ownership name to head and short tear into imprint repaired without loss, maps and a few illustrations with contemporary hand-colouring, a few with additional place names or details supplied in manuscript (see Westmorland), a few maps trimmed within platemark, map of Scotland with small loss at central fold, one or two other small holes within plates, a few marginal defects, some short tears and repairs to text and plates without loss, 2Z2 paper-flaw hole within text and engraved illustration to verso, [2]c1 flaw to upper corner with loss to a few letters, some light soiling, final few ff. creased and little frayed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, worn, covers detached, [Wing C359], folio, F. Collins, for A. Swalle...and A. & J. Churchill, 1695. *** First edition of Gibson's translation and the first with Morden's maps.
Lot 191
Spain.- Portugal.- Roscoe (Thomas) & W. H. Harrison. The Tourist in Spain, 5 vol., comprising, Granada; Andalusia; Biscay & Castile's; Spain & Morocco, and; Portugal, large paper copies, illustrated by David Roberts and James Holland, half-title to vol. 5 only, 5 additional engraved titles and 97 plates, vol. 1 & 2 only with wood engraved illustrations and 14 additional illustrations only (of 20) on India paper, vol. 2 & 3 with advertisements at end, spotting, vol. 4 with marginal water-staining, all but vol. 1 in original morocco, vol. 4 rebacked retaining original spine, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, vol. 1 in contemporary calf, upper cover detached, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Robert Jennings, 1835-39; and others from the same series, including duplicates, 8vo & folio (33).
Lot 64
Europe.- Six Views of Waterloo. drawn on stone from sketches taken on the spot 1816, 6 lithographs, marginal creasing and light soiling, original printed paper wrappers, lacking lower cover, previous owner's printed paper label to upper cover, rubbed, chipping and small loss to edges and extremities, a little soiled, R. Ackermann, 1830 § Beattie (William) The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny and the Ban de la Roche, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, plates, tissue-guards, one folding map, occasional marginal spotting, ex-library with usual label and occasional ink-stamps, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1838; folio & 4to (2).
Lot 214
World.- Levasseur (Victor) Atlas National Illustre des 86 Departements et des Possessions de la France Divise par Arrondissements, Cantons et Communes..., engraved title page, 100 engraved maps, including individual French departments and French colonial possessions of the time, with a double-page map at the back of the atlas showing France as a whole, the 'Planisphere' map still showing Texas as independent, all with decorative vignettes and illustrations in the margins, some outline hand-colouring, some occasional minor spotting and browning, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, scuffs and some rubbing, folio, 1852.
Lot 139
Middle East.- Scala (A. von) Sammlung von Abbildungen Türkischer, Arabischer, Persischer, Centralasiatischer und Indischer Metallobjecte [Illustrations of Turkish, Arabian, Persian, Central Asiatic and Indian Metal Ware], text in German and English, 50 collotype plates loose as issued, original half-cloth portfolio, slight chipping to flaps, bumping and chipping to corners and extremities, rubbed, folio, Vienna, 1895.
Lot 121
Middle East.- Journeys to Constantinople and the Qajar Empire.- Collection of passports and travel documents relating to several journeys undertaken between the 1840s and 1860s, including several French stamped documents dated '1840', 6 documents in Persian, a 'British Subject Passport' for John Murray, dated 1861, with five variant stamps including one from 'Constantinople', others presumably from countries within the Qajar Empire, another for Murray and his family, and several passport documents relating to members of the Nesbitt family, including Andrew Nesbitt and William Alexander Nesbitt, various sizes, all neatly presented within large album, many missing pages, many sheets loose, rough edges, blue morocco, blind tooled, upper cover gilt 'Passports', lacking spine, very worn and scuffed, oblong folio, [mid-19th century]Provenance:Probably John Murray III (1808-1892)
Lot 216
World.- odd volumes.- Cook (Captain James) & Captain James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, vol. 3 only (of 3), 5 engraved maps only (of 6), including map of Hawaii, one folding, one folding table, trimmed at foot just touching text, faint off-setting, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 1784 § Middleton (Charles Theodore) A New and Complete System of Geography. containing a full, accurate, authentic and interesting Account and Description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, vol. 2 only (of 2), title in red and black, 43 engraved plates, 13 engraved maps (one folding), list of subscriber's bound at end, occasional water-staining (mostly marginal), occasional chipping and small loss to edges, scattered spotting, contemporary reverse calf, upper cover and front free endpaper detached, cracked lower joint, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1778 § Payne (John) Universal Geography, formed into a new and entire System; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America, vol. 3 only (of 3), hand-coloured frontispiece, 22 engraved plates, 7 hand-coloured maps (one folding, with tears and small loss), previous owner's ink signature to title, 2G2 with large loss affecting text, spotting and staining, one or two marginal tears, previous owner's ink notes to front free endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed, and worn, small loss to upper cover, bumping to corners and extremities, Dublin, 1809; 4to & folio (3); sold as a collection of plates and maps, not for return.
![Middle East.- Holy Land.- [American Colony - Jerusalem Album], 48 vintage albumen prints, each c.285 x 215 mm, captioned in E](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b851303b-4446-40fb-ad36-b120007e9696/8875fa36-c386-4952-afaa-b12000845043/468x382.jpg)
Lot 125
Middle East.- Holy Land.- [American Colony - Jerusalem Album], 48 vintage albumen prints, each c.285 x 215 mm, captioned in English and French and numbered in the negative, many with "American Colony Jerusalem" in the negative, occasional faint finger marks, pasted into an album, contemporary morocco-backed wooden boards, defective backstrip but holding firm, a little rubbed, oblong folio, [c.1920]. *** The American Colony in Jerusalem was established in 1881 by Anna and Horatio Spafford, who were members of a Christian Utopian society. Including images of: Wailing Wall; The Dead Sea; Rover Jordan' Mount of Temptation; Damascus Gate, and; the Golden Gate.
Lot 84
India.- Photograph Album of Indian Views, 75 whole plate photographs, most 180 x 230mm, spotting to leaves and some photos, photo edges toned, pink stamp-mark to bottom corner of final photo, g.e., spine joints worn, corners rubbed, c.1880-90; another Photograph Album of Indian Views, photographs and illustrations, some images faded, a few leaves loose, browning and foxing, marginal tears, c.1899-1911, contemporary black half morocco, gilt, oblong folio (2)*** The first an excellent Indian album with views of ships, ancient ruins, cityscapes, the Sikh regiment, boar hunting, hilltop forts and more at the turn of the twentieth century.Provenance: From the Earls of Carlisle Howard family, containing two group photographs of the 9th Earl and his family.
Lot 94
Italy.- Parboni (Achille) Nuova Raccolta delle principali vedute Anitche e Moderne dell' Alma Cita' di Roma, 55 engraved plates, all but 5 numbered in the plate, scattered spotting, mostly marginal, gutta percha perished with some ff. detached or becoming so, hinges strengthened, contemporary half-calf, rubbing to corners and extremities, oblong folio, Rome, [c.1830].
Lot 12
Africa.- Mashonaland Herald (The) & Zambesian Times, 2 vol., comprising No. 9 & No. 59, Mashonaland, 22 August 1891 & 20 August 1892; The Rhodesian Chronicle and Mashonaland Advertiser, No. 16 & 26, 20 August 1892 & 29 October 1892 § The Matabele Times and Mining Journal, 15 June 1894, 17 June 1894 & 7 August 1894, most lightly browned, foldlines, one or two splits to foldlines, 4 tipped-in to later paper wrappers, slight chipping to edges; and others similar, folio (9). *** An interesting collection of early African newspapers. The first mentioned was described by a contemporary journalist as a “crude but readable cyclostyled sheet”. It ran for 62 weeks before being replaced by "The Rhodesia Herald", since renamed "The Herald", which survives today as Zimbabwe's oldest newspaper.
Lot 9
Africa.- Hay (Robert) Illustrations of Cairo, first edition, additional lithographed title, lithograph dedication, 29 lithographs, scattered faint spotting and staining (most marginal), strengthened at hinges, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, small loss to backstrip but holding firm, bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey, Travel 270], folio, 1840.
Lot 173
South America.- Argentina.- Moussy (Jean Antoine Victor Martin de) Description geographique et statistique de la Confederation Argentine, atlas vol. only, frontispiece, title, 29 maps and charts, lithographs, two with hand-colouring, all double-page, each approx. 470 x 500 mm (18 1/2 x 19 3/4 in), scattered spotting and minor browning, original green boards, gilt, spine scuffed and rubbed, corners bumped, slightly worn, folio, Paris, 1873 § Illinois.- Atlas McLean County and the State of Illinois. To Which is Added an Atlas of the United States, Maps of the Hemispheres &c., 25 lithographed plates, each with one or numerous views, and approx. 70 coloured lithographic maps, some tears and handling creases, modern half morocco preserving publisher's cloth panels, folio, Chicago, Warner & Beers, 1874 (2)
Lot 95
Italy.- Photograph Album of Sicilian Views, 48 photographs of Sicily in 19th century, featuring ruins, artworks, landscapes and church interiors, 151 x 202mm, printed captions laid down below photographs, foxing to leaves with plates unaffected, contemporary black half morocco, gilt, g.e., rubbed, lacking backstrip, oblong folio, c.1880.
Lot 127
Middle East.- Inter-Service Information Series (I.S.I.S.) Report on Trans-Saharan Routes, large folding map, detached and loosely inserted, illustrations, 2 have been removed by a previous owner, original cloth-backed boards, remnants of small paper label to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, October 1941. *** Unrecorded. Not on Library Hub or World Cat.
Lot 213
World.- Kitchin (Thomas) Kitchin's General Atlas, Describing the Whole Universe, title, with 19 maps only (of 40), lacking the maps of America, Asia and Indian Subsontinent, and the World, with mainly European interest remaining, engravings on various papers, various sizes, all on stubs, a few loose, some folds with splitting, a few with even toning, scattered surface dirt, handling creases and minor nicks, later marbled boards, very worn with spine splitting, folio, Laurie & Whittle, [1804].
Lot 99
Italy.- Roman Life & costumes.- Pinelli (Bartolomeo) Costume Diversi, 25 etched plates by Pinelli, small stain to title, faint water-stain to top fore-edge corner, stab-holes to gutter, nineteenth century red morocco, gilt, recased, signs of soiling and wear, Rome, Luigi Fabbri, 1822; [?Costumi], 50 engraved plates, the first lightly browned, foxing and spotting, modern morocco-backed boards, [?Rome], [?c.1822], folio & oblong 8vo (2)
![Middle East.- [Mayer (Luigi)] [Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean Islands], vol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b851303b-4446-40fb-ad36-b120007e9696/30a6e548-0035-4630-b02e-b12000845a6c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 128
Middle East.- [Mayer (Luigi)] [Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe in Asia, and some of the Mediterranean Islands], vol. 2 only (of 2), bound without letterpress title, 35 hand-coloured aquatints only, plates watermarked 'J. Whatman, 1809', engraved dedication ff., list of plates, letterpress explanations in English and French, occasional very faint marginal spotting, contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 789], folio, [1810]. *** From the list of plates, this volume includes those numbered 37-71.
Lot 190
Spain.- Portugal.- Bradford (Rev. William) Esquisse du Pays, du Caractere et du Costume en Portugal et en Espagne: Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, title in French and English, 53 hand-coloured aquatints only (of ?54), occasional spotting and soiling, some short marginal tears, disbound, loosely inserted in later boards, crudely rebacked, rubbed and worn, [Abbey Travel 135], folio, 1812; sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Lot 202
Voyages.- Olearius (Adam) [The Voyages & Travels ... into the East-Indies ... containing a particular description of The great Mogul's Empire ...], 2 parts bound as 1 vol., lacking general title and additional engraved title, 3 engraved plates only, one engraved map only (trimmed, old repairs verso), remnants of 2 maps, spotting and staining, occasional rust-holes, previous owner's doodles and annotations, browned, modern front free endpaper, modern calf, rebacked and recornered, rubbed, folio, for Tho. Dring, and J. Starkey, 1662; sold not subject to return
Lot 62
Europe.- Lutgers (P. J.) Gezigten aan de Rivier de Vecht, vignette title, 86 lithographs, one or two captioned by hand, light spotting, occasional marginal water-staining, later half-morocco, rubbed and worn, small loss to lower cover, rubbing and bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Utrecht, Catharijne Poort, 1836.
Lot 339
Five works on modern art. Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas. 'The Peggy Guggenheim. Collection of Modern Art,' folio, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, Rizzoli, New York, 2001; David Hockney. 'Secret Knowledge. Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters,' original cloth, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, Thames & Hudson, 2001; With a Taschen promotional publication; David Fraser Jenkins and Frances Spalding. 'John in the 1930s. Abstraction on the Beach,' unclipped dj, profuse with colour illustrations throughout, vg, Merrell, London, 2003; Stefan van Ray et al. 'Modern British Art at Pallant House Gallery,' unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, Scala, 2004. (5)
Lot 248
Four works on Italian art and culture. Joachim Poeschke. 'Italian Mosaics. 300-1300,' folio, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, vg, Abbeville Press, London, 2010; Giovanni Careri. 'Baroques,' folio, unclipped dj, colour illustrations throughout, vg, Princeton University Press, 2003; with two others (4)
Lot 427
A 19th century album of topographical watercolours, mainly copied from works by David Hall McKewan, David Cox and William Leighton Leitch, themes to include Mont Blanc, twenty two in total, mostly approximately 25.5 x 36cm, oblong folio bound in green morocco; together with one further framed example
Lot 72
ORCHIDACEAE: HUNT (Peter Francis & Mary Grierson): 'Orchidaceae..': Bourton Press, 1973: No.294/600 copies, signed by author and artist: 40 colour plates by Grierson, original vellum, aeg, spine gilt lettered, vellum a little yellowed and marked, slipcase, a little rubbed and dustsoiled, large folio. (1)
Lot 151
ETON: CHATTOCK (Richard, illustrator): 'Sketches of Eton', London, Sealey, Jackson and Halliday, 1874: with 14 etchings plus woodblock vignettes, frontispiece detached, full red morocco gilt by Hawes of Cambridge, a bit rubbed and marked, short crack to foot of upper hinge, folio: with another folio volume on Eton College. (2)
Lot 360
LINDSAY (Norman): 'Lysistrata by Aristophanes...illustrations by Norman Lindsay': London, Fanfrolico Press, (1926): No.273/725 copies, signed by translator: original blue half calf gilt, a bit rubbed and sunned, spine ends chipped, folio: together with an edition of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrations by Edmund Dulac: and a 19thc edition of 'The Vision of Dante', in 20thc red half calf gilt, 8vo. (3)
Lot 222
ALBUM: AMERICAN ADVERTISING: good album of several hundred late 19thc American trade cards, advertising flyers and greetings, chromolithographic and colour litho, some die-cut examples, including perfumes, cosmetics, sewing requisites, medicines, tobacco products, watchmakers and jewellers, seedsmen, etc, some black American caricature, all neatly arranged and pasted to 36 card leaves (album filled), embossed cloth covers heightened in black, silver and gilt, rubbed to extrems but generally in good condition, folio. (1)
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